What's the biggest determinant of how you start 2026?

How you end 2025.

Here's why...

If you end 2025 by gradually slowing down, deferring, delaying then you'll begin 2026 dealing with the things you deferred from last year, enjoying the fruits of the habits you didn't cultivate in 2025, and beginning from a static start.

If you give 100% til the finish line, cultivate new habits now, complete old actions now, initiate new ideas now, then break 100% when on break (no email, no work related activities), then you'll return fully rested, with new initiatives already in place, with energy and with momentum created from the previous year.

Not theory: I've been coaching people for 15 years, and I noticed that this behavior made a big difference

As my coach often reminded me when I was about to do something non-excellent "the genesis of the thing becomes the thing"

How you start 2026 becomes 2026. The seeds of success for next year are being planted right now, with the habits you form, the actions you don't defer, the help you enlist.

You cannot slow your way into momentum

You cannot mediocre your way into excellence

You cannot 50% your way into 100%